tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20315135.post114722519428341314..comments2023-11-02T04:13:10.408-04:00Comments on Piebald Life: Imagining the Squared CircleAlexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16839808614263512639noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20315135.post-1147306519678361762006-05-10T20:15:00.000-04:002006-05-10T20:15:00.000-04:00just got a couple minutes here at camp/resort Rock...just got a couple minutes here at camp/resort Rockbridge and checked the blog, great stuff, Macon! I appreciate your nerdiness and geekiness and for how it blesses me all the time. this post reminds me why i can't help but love you!<BR/><BR/>i like the stretching of imagination that you talk about here, I think that I love C.S. Lewis' fiction for the very reasons you talk about here. although Lewis does FOR me what you (because you're naturally so geeky and nerdy) enjoy doing on your own. He infuses his imagination with Holy Thought that presses me to think beyond my normal boundaries. <BR/><BR/>Imagination de-flattens my world. there's been lots of thought and reflection in Christian history about what the redeemed mind, will, and heart look like. I think that there's been too little discussion and thought about what the redeemed imagination might look like--and the unique role the redeemed imagination might play in the life of the believer and the transformation of the world around us.<BR/><BR/>thanks again for your posting, mac!Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16839808614263512639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20315135.post-1147274684275151622006-05-10T11:24:00.000-04:002006-05-10T11:24:00.000-04:00don't know that i'd trust myself to have such an e...don't know that i'd trust myself to have such an easy connection. maybe if Jane was handling my light work... ;-)<BR/><BR/>and the ansible is original to Ursula K LeGuin [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansible] (i love wikipedia!!!). i am hoping quantum entanglement will make an ansible possible.<BR/><BR/>(btw, while i hope for an ansible, i neither hope for nor expect self-organizing AIs like Jane, Wintermute, SkyNet, the Matrix, etc. i think Jared Lanier is right here: we can't get Windows right, how are we going to get an AI?<BR/><BR/>i frankly find self-organizing AI to be an insiduous evolutionist argument. i don't believe in accidentally complex consciousness.<BR/><BR/>so if we don't get one in the next couple of years, does Kurzweil have to confess, with Jim Bakker, that he was wrong?)Sean Meadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05065687969605540072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20315135.post-1147271597809899992006-05-10T10:33:00.000-04:002006-05-10T10:33:00.000-04:00I was just talking to someone at work yesterday ab...I was just talking to someone at work yesterday about the "ansible." Though I didn't call it that. The subject was whether we'd ever allow ourselves to be implanted with a device that plugged us directly into the net. Most demurred, but I said I'd be happy to have a direct-to-net plug-in that resided in an earring, which would allow me to physically "unplug" from the connection.<BR/><BR/>For those who have no idea what the heck an "ansible" is, you can find it in the Ender's Game series of SF novels.Maconhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08496143017772324015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20315135.post-1147268794007688002006-05-10T09:46:00.000-04:002006-05-10T09:46:00.000-04:00i really love the combo of FTL spaceships AND imme...i really love the combo of FTL spaceships AND immediate communication (a la ansible). i dig those dynamics, for some reason.<BR/><BR/>you know you're a geek if you see the initials FTL on the waistband of a pair of underwear and the first thing you think is not Fruit of the Loom ;-)Sean Meadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05065687969605540072noreply@blogger.com